Editing Beautiful Garbage (section)

==Critical reception==
{{Album ratings
| MC = 69/100<ref name="mc"/>
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="AllMusic"/>
| rev2 = [[Robert Christgau]]
| rev2score = {{Rating-Christgau|hm1}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=garbage |title=Robert Christgau: CG: Garbage |publisher=RobertChristgau.com |access-date=February 1, 2015}}</ref>
| rev3 = ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''
| rev3score = B<ref name="EW"/>
| rev4 = ''[[Kerrang!]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{Citation needed|date=May 2019}}
| rev5 = ''[[NME]]''
| rev5score = 5/10<ref>{{cite web |last=Wirth |first=Jim |url=http://www.nme.com/reviews/garbage/5653 |title=Garbage : Beautiful Garbage |work=NME |date=September 25, 2001 |access-date=February 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228232616/http://www.nme.com/reviews//5653 |archive-date=December 28, 2013}}</ref>
| rev6 = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="QUncut"/>
| rev7 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]''
| rev7score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Harris |first=Keith |chapter=Garbage |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t9eocwUfoSoC&q=beautiful+garbage&pg=PA323 |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor1-link=Nathan Brackett |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |editor2-link=Christian Hoard |title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |edition=4th |location=New York City |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |year=2004 |page=[https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac/page/323 323] |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |via=Google Books }}</ref>
| rev8 = ''[[Sunday Tribune]]''
| rev8score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Carey |first=Anna |title=CD of the week |newspaper=[[Sunday Tribune]] |date=30 September 2001}}</ref>
| rev9 = ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Uncut">{{cite journal |last=Stubbs |first=David |title=Garbage: Beautiful Garbage (Mushroom) |journal=Uncut |date=November 2001 |url=https://www.rocksbackpages.com/Library/Article/garbage-beautiful-garbage-mushroom |access-date=27 April 2019|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
}}

''Beautiful Garbage'' received generally positive reviews from music critics. At [[Metacritic]], which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized]] rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an [[Weighted arithmetic mean|average]] score of 69, based on 17 reviews.<ref name="mc">{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/beautifulgarbage/garbage/critic-reviews |title=Beautifulgarbage by Garbage Critic Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=October 22, 2014}}</ref> Both ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s US and Australian editions named ''Beautiful Garbage'' as one of their critics "Top 10 Albums of the Year".<ref name="RSBG">''Hits'' magazine trade ad, for "[[Breaking Up the Girl]]", Interscope, published December 2001</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31233826/the_year_in_recordings_the_top_10_albums_of_the_year_2001/3 |title=The Year in Recordings: The Top 10 Albums of the Year 2001 |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=December 27, 2001 |access-date=June 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106024505/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/31233826/the_year_in_recordings_the_top_10_albums_of_the_year_2001/3 |archive-date=January 6, 2010}}</ref>

Tom Laskin of ''[[Isthmus (newspaper)|Isthmus]]'' wrote that the significant "sonic tweaking and abundant sampling" of ''[[Version 2.0]]'' is discarded as the songs are supported primarily by "bass, drum, and guitar configurations". Observing a musical theme, it is "the band's abandonment of digitally manipulated perfection in favor of rawer guitars and more immediate vocal performances." He added that, overall, the album is "far less commercially accommodating than any of the band's previous work. It embraces no particular sound or style. It comes across with ideas and commentary that challenge rather than coerce, and the playing lacks the burnished, artificial quality that's characteristic of so much youth-oriented music these days."<ref name="Isthmus"/> Peter Robinson of ''[[NME]]'' wrote that the album was a "departure from the sound Garbage had established on their first two records"; It is "marked by expanding on the musical variety, with stronger melodies, more direct lyrics, and sounds that mix rock with [[hip hop music|hip hop]], [[electronica]], [[New wave music|new wave]], and [[girl group]]s."<ref name="cs" /> ''[[Sound on Sound]]'' described the band's approach to recording guitars as "distinctive", observing the "distorted crunches cheek-by-jowl with delicate acoustics and treated sounds which are almost unrecognizable."<ref name="SOS"/> Michael Paoletta of ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' noted that audiences expecting "more of the same [''Version 2.0''] are in for a wonderful surprise." The band eschews "disco-infused electronica foundations for more straight-up rock'n'pop". "Modern tales for modern times, sung by the vocally versatile Manson, make for one of the year's best."<ref name="BillboardReview">{{cite magazine |last=Paoletta |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bhEEAAAAMBAJ&q=beautiful+garbage&pg=PA22 |title=Reviews & Previews: Albums |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |volume=113 |issue=41 |date=October 13, 2001 |page=22 |issn=0006-2510 |access-date=January 27, 2019 |via=Google Books}}</ref> ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]'' described it as "sharp, seductive music from a band at their peak."<ref name="QUncut">{{cite web |url=http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Beautiful-Garbage/Garbage/X606949311520#music_review |title=Beautiful Garbage by Garbage – Music Reviews |publisher=[[Books-A-Million]] |date=October 2001 |access-date=October 22, 2014}}</ref> ''[[Uncut (magazine)|Uncut]]'' called it "their most accomplished and convincing album yet."<ref name="Uncut"/>

[[AllMusic]]'s [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] commented that Garbage's penchant for absorbing elements from various genres, skillfully crafting them together is more evident in this album, in how they "approximate contemporary R&B with the sultry 'Androgyny', or the Minneapolis new wave bubblegum funk of 'Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!),' or the bluesy [[PJ Harvey]] strut of 'Silence Is Golden.'" This penchant is enhanced by an "unabashedly pop coating, an element that Garbage clearly revel in, as well as should the listener." He described it "every bit as enticingly postmodern as their other albums, and it sounds distinctly Garbage" and although the [[Music genre#Fusion|fusion]] elements are perceptible, "they seem less like magpies, more themselves, which means Beautiful Garbage is a more consistent record."<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |last=Erlewine |first=Stephen Thomas |author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/beautiful-garbage-mw0000014547 |title=Beautiful Garbage – Garbage |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=June 11, 2021}}</ref> [[David Browne (journalist)|David Browne]] of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' observed Manson's continued "aggressive bite" complemented by "throbbing tracks like 'Till the Day I Die' and 'Shut Your Mouth'", as well as exposing "tender aspects" in "heartfelt" and "subdued" songs like 'Cup of Coffee' and 'So Like a Rose'. He noted however that the band's "experiments with sonic expansion yield more mixed results"; "They thaw their sound by adding elements of trip-hop, which works for 'Cup of Coffee' and the first single, 'Androgyny'...But on a record that's more self-consciously varied than 1998's ''[[Version 2.0]]'' other attempts are gimmicky and less successful. "Still, there's just enough to salvage from ''beautifulgarbage''."<ref name="EW">{{cite magazine |last=Browne |first=David |author-link=David Browne  (journalist) |url=https://ew.com/article/2001/10/05/beautifulgarbage-2/ |title=beautifulgarbage |magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=October 5, 2001 |access-date=January 17, 2016}}</ref>